SAN DIEGO — The San Diego County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to terminate three agreements the county has in place that allow federal immigration agents and other federal law enforcement personnel to train at two firing ranges that are either owned or leased by the county.

Board Chair Terra Lawson-Remer and ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland’s third beaver attack this summer was different than the others — as of Monday, officials still haven’t been able to capture a live animal to test it for rabies.

In Montgomery County’s Seneca Creek State Park, where a beaver attacked a 10-year-old girl at summer camp, the environment contains “a stream that is ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department plans to send 1,000 monitors to watch voting during the midterm elections in November, a historic figure for a Republican administration, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said.

Dhillon, who oversees DOJ’s civil rights division, said the monitors’ job will be to observe whether elections are ...Read more

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — The College of William & Mary is under investigation by the United States Justice Department on the grounds the nation’s second-oldest university has violated its students’ civil rights.

Federal authorities alleged Monday that William & Mary has shown favoritism by way of scholarships and benefits to some students on ...Read more

A 16-year-old lifeguard, whose viral video rescue of a boy at a Santa Cruz beach last month drew widespread praise, met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday afternoon.

Ryder Williams, 16, met with Trump at the Oval Office, after the president announced that Ryder would receive a “High Civilian Honor” for the rescue.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Democratic Gov. Josh Stein vetoed a controversial elections bill on Monday that would have cut the early voting period for primary elections, among a suite of other Republican-backed changes.

At a ceremony at the Executive Mansion, Stein was joined by Democratic lawmakers, voting rights activists and students as he vetoed the ...Read more

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The U.S. Navy’s newest aircraft carrier is inching toward completion after successfully undergoing sea trials.

The USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) is the Navy’s second Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and is currently undergoing its final outfitting in the James River. Huntington Ingalls Industries announced ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The prospects for peace in the Middle East suffered a fresh setback, with President Donald Trump saying he’s not interested in extending the expiring agreement with Iran and fighting flaring anew in Lebanon.

Asked whether he would seek an extension of the memorandum of understanding signed in June — which technically expires...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A 30-year-old man who was spotted coming out of bushes near where the Sorrento fire ignited Sunday was arrested on suspicion of starting the 131-acre blaze, authorities said.

The man, Brandon Glasco, was being held in county jail on $75,000 bail on a felony charge of arson involving forest land, according to the San Diego County ...Read more

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial was pushed back indefinitely Monday amid his claim of double jeopardy following his unexpected guilty plea to federal charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

In a brief order, State Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro set Mangione’s next court appearance for Dec....Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court for a second time rejected President Donald Trump’s request to overturn a jury finding that he sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll.

The rebuff leaves intact a $5 million award that Carroll collected after the high court’s June 29 refusal to take up Trump’s appeal. The president had ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Kentucky man was sentenced to more than two years in prison Friday after making threats of violence against lawmakers, including U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie.

Benjamin Keebler, 55, of Florence, will serve two and a half years in federal prison, which was handed down in Covington by U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning. The ...Read more

Hayden Panettiere, a two-time Golden Globe-nominated actor who had performed on screen since she was a toddler, died Sunday in Greenville, South Carolina.

Panettiere, who earned acclaim for her roles as a cheerleader with supernatural powers on the TV show “Heroes” and as a troubled country music diva on the show “Nashville,” was 36.

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LAS VEGAS — Attorneys began delivering opening statements Monday in the trial of the man accused of orchestrating the killing of Tupac Shakur.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, is on trial in connection with the shooting of Shakur, who was shot near the Las Vegas Strip in September 1996.

No one was arrested in the slaying until Davis was taken ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The prospects for peace in the Middle East suffered a fresh setback, with President Donald Trump reportedly saying he is in no hurry to end the war with Iran and fighting flaring anew in Lebanon.

In a phone interview with Fox News, Trump said a U.S. naval blockade on Iranian ports is putting pressure on the country and that he ...Read more

At the end of Hayden Panettiere’s memoir, which she published in May, she wrote about learning the principle of “radical acceptance” in her years of treatment programs for drug and alcohol addiction.

The actor and singer, who died Sunday at the age of 36 in South Carolina of a suspected drug overdose, wrote in “This Is Me: A Reckoning�...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Monday vetoed a bill that would allow the state’s chief justice to suspend trial judges without pay during investigations into their conduct.

Stein, a Democrat, told The News & Observer in a statement that the bill “would have a chilling effect on judicial independence” and said that no ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Clearing encampments won’t end homelessness. Instead, it could create a cycle of clearing and re-establishing sites, said Liz Clasen-Kelly, CEO of the nonprofit, Roof Above.

It’s one of several effects Clasen-Kelly anticipates if the North Carolina legislature overrides Gov. Josh Stein’s veto on House Bill 437. The ...Read more

California’s “slayer statute” stands in the way of Nick Reiner and the trust fund his parents set up for him when he was a baby, the professional fiduciary for the fund said in court filings last week.

Reiner stands accused of murdering his parents, Hollywood director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, last December, and since June has...Read more

NEW YORK — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is calling on President Donald Trump’s administration to grant a reprieve for hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants facing the termination of temporary protected status that has allowed them to legally live and work in the United States for years.

Characterizing the move by the feds as “callous�...Read more